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How popular is “Kesley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kesley” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kesley” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kesley” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kesley” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kesley” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kesley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kesley” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1975 6 0.000001987 6 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1983 15 0.000004331 8 7 7%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 100%
1986 22 0.000006185 16 6 45%
1987 12 0.000003328 12 100%
1988 22 0.000005954 13 9 18%
1989 39 0.000010145 30 9 54%
1990 41 0.000010373 35 6 71%
1991 36 0.000009242 31 5 72%
1992 24 0.000006248 24 100%
1993 26 0.000006896 26 100%
1994 20 0.00000538 20 100%
1995 28 0.000007646 19 9 36%
1996 16 0.000004387 16 100%
1997 23 0.000006344 23 100%
1998 18 0.000004894 18 100%
1999 19 0.000005144 19 100%
2000 14 0.000003704 14 100%
2001 20 0.000005343 20 100%
2002 19 0.000005083 19 100%
2003 13 0.000003419 13 100%
2004 17 0.000004449 17 100%
2005 11 0.000002861 11 100%
2006 12 0.000003033 12 100%
2007 15 0.000003752 15 100%
2008 21 0.000005343 21 100%
2009 13 0.000003403 13 100%
2010 18 0.00000487 18 100%
2011 18 0.000004921 18 100%
2012 10 0.000002734 10 100%
2013 13 0.000003566 13 100%
2014 9 0.000002428 9 100%
2015 13 0.000003513 13 100%
2016 16 0.000004361 16 100%
2017 10 0.000002796 10 100%
2018 11 0.000003129 11 100%
2019 10 0.000002881 10 100%
2020 12 0.000003592 12 100%
2021 9 0.000002656 9 100%
2022 10 0.000002956 10 100%
2023 14 0.000004228 9 5 29%
2024 13 0.000003906 13 100%

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